knocked my sox off

For those of you who missed America's Got Talent this summer, be prepared to be entertained. Be sure and watch all three clips. Don't forget to turn on the sound.

He truly is awesome. This guy is from Mesquite, TX.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnVDHzUAj30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGH-5-Gvjng

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTSFhIv9bYg

onions?

Today we were making cookies. Then we smelled something. What is that? Something was burning. But WHAT! Then my mom says open the door. She was caring SMOKING pans with burnt cookies on it. She said "I was cooking onions and forgot about the cookies. And I thought I was burning the onions." Out of the two pans half of one pan was okay to eat. They are really crunchy. Mom dumped the burnt cookies outside in the dirt. I was very sad, poor chocolate
chips...

Vinegar Stinks!

In this experiment, I will show how rocks can be broken down by chemical weathering.

Cast of characters for this experiment:Vinegar{It really stinks!}, limestone rock{from our driveway}, large glass{Gig 'Em Aggies}, some steel wool{I had to get this from Nana's}, and a small bowl.

Now let's get started...First I added a limestone rock to the Aggie glass. I was very careful not to plop it in too quickly and break the glass. Mom wouldn't have liked that very much.

Next I filled the glass...

3/4 full of vinegar.

Then we watched the rock for a while

{Tick. Tock.}

and saw lots of bubbles form and float to the top.

You can sort of see the bubbles here. The bubbles make the water look cloudy on the top of the rock. It was hard to get a good picture. They were bubbles like you see in Sprite when you first pour it.

The next part of the experiment has you place some steel wool in a bowl. I cut the steel wool that I got from Nana's in half.

Mom says that steel wool is great for sharpening scissors. I tried it out.

I poured vinegar over the steel wool.

I poured enough into the bowl so that it covered half the steel wool.

Next you have to let the steel wool sit in the vinegar overnight.

I turned it a few times through the night to make sure all the steel wool got a fair chance to soak in the vinegar bath. Fair is fair after all!

The next morning I examined the glass with the rock.

I swirled the glass a little and looked at the sediments in the vinegar that came from the rock. It looked like sand in the bottom of the glass.

I also looked at the steel wool.

It had stuff floating in the vinegar and had 'rust' along the edge of the bowl.

Wala! Chemical breakdown of some pretty tough stuff.